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Circuit Scribe is a rollerball pen that uses a silver conductive ink to let you create fully functioning circuits as fast as you can draw, making it cheaper, faster and easier to test out electronics and prototype concepts. Developed by Electroninks ...

Twitter went public last week, and in response, media artist Kyle McDonald decided to open his own personal Twitter account to the masses. McDonald, who is known for his People Staring at Computers project, wanted to explore the idea of what it means...

Socially driven wearable-technology company Wearable Experiments created the Navigate jacket, which uses haptic feedback and LED lighting to provide directions for the wearer. The jacket comes with an accompanying app that stores destinations and upl...

The Shawshank Redemption. Good Will Hunting. 12 Angry Men. Of these three critically acclaimed films, not one of them would receive an ‘A’ rating based on a review system being implemented in several Swedish cinemas. The rating system in question? Th...

Paying for an additional piece of luggage is something we all want to avoid. Airlines have been on a constant hunt to make a dent in our travel budgets. With U.S. airlines such as Spirit and Frontier charging travelers for carry-ons, it is only a mat...

Created by Japanese researchers at the Tokyo University of Technology, The Light Shooter is an archery game that uses a real bow to hit digital targets. The first person shooting game has an actual Japanese bow as the interface. Real equipment teache...

There are probably at least four pairs of shoes in your closet right now. Consider yourself lucky, because more than 300 million people in developing nations do not even own one pair. The team behind Unifold is hoping to change that in the near futur...

Indie online clothing retailer Aplomb revamped its business model to eliminate cash exchange and instead promote the exchange of ideas. Creative individuals write articles about things they want to advocate for and post their written content (from ar...

Instead of entrusting the light show to a technician, Mickey Hart, former percussionist for the Grateful Dead, makes sure that he is the one in control -- by controlling the lights using his brainwaves. Hart dons a black cap studded with electrodes t...

There appear to be very few limits where the "quantified self" movement can go, especially if this piece of baby monitoring equipment designed to give parents peace of mind is anything to go by. Mimo is a connected onesie that monitors a baby’s sleep...

Shielding their faces from paparazzi’s lenses is the mode du jour for celebrities hoping to avoid getting their photo taken. But designer Ying Gao, a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal, has a different proposition. Gao created a pair of...

Can you imagine tasting a social network? Two enterprising ice cream makers at Valentino Ice Cream Shop in Tisno, on Croatia’s Murter island, came up with the novel idea. One of the owners, Admir Adil, noticed his 15-year-old daughter was incessantly...

Designer Marcus Byrne of Melbourne, Australia created a 3D letter and font suite using the light from an iPhone. Byrne created the Phone Streak font in darkness by painting characters in the air with the light from the iPhone. He photographed the lig...

The recent heatwave in Southern China has caused air-conditioned vests to rise in popularity, and over four thousand have already been sold in the last three months, according to a report in China Daily. The vest keeps the wearer cool by circulating ...

International lingerie company Wacoal revealed a bra vending machine this past Friday at its Une NaNa Cool brand specialty shop in Shibuya, Japan. The vending machine is stocked with the brand's wireless Fun Fun Week bras. Customers can check out a s...

If you take more than one medication, it can be difficult to keep track of your drugs' respective renewal and expiration dates. Self Expiring, designed by Kanupriya and Gautam Goel, can help you solve one of those problems. If drug companies implemen...

Looking to venture into great outdoors but not quite ready to go on a total tech detox? The Katabatic solar-powered tent might be the camping product you've been waiting for. Released by Eddie Bauer in collaboration with Goal Zero, the Katabatic tent...

For DIY-er, inventor and maker Jason Poel Smith, the Magic 8 Ball was an amusing toy, but it could only respond to questions with 20 possible answers. So he decided to give it a serious upgrade. In his Instructables project, Smith provided detailed s...

The current MTA Subway Map, based on the 1979 design by Michael Hertz Associates, has become a celebrated hallmark of New York City -- aiding tourists and locals alike as they navigate the five boroughs. There may, however, be a better way to display...

Passengers who are running late for flights can cause delays that not only affect flight schedules and other jet-setters, but also cost airlines a lot of money. To address this problem, Heathrow Airport has pioneered a new technology through its boar...

For vacationers seeking the solace of island life, disconnecting from a smartphone and all things tech is a welcome reprieve. But if your idea of paradise is mingling with other Tweetaholics, then the "first Twitter experience hotel" is for you. Loca...

Print may seem like a declining medium, but Novalia is trying to preserve the paper form by turning formerly static objects into usable interfaces. Novalia comprises a team of seven scientists, programmers and designers from the UK -- all of whom are...

Wi-Fi channels may not be visible to the human eye, but they're all around us. In order to visually depict their ubiquity, Nickolay Lamm uses a multitude of colors to show the unique wavelengths that make up Wi-Fi signals and imagines what freeze fra...

While studying at the Industrial Design department in Bezalel Academy For Arts and Design in Jerusalem, industrial designer Tony Grigorian (Antonina) has created a series called "I Used To Be A Washing Machine," which features a manual that guides pe...

Without gravity, it's difficult -- if not impossible -- to predict how a liquid will behave. To develop a better understanding of fluids in microgravity, a Capillary Flow Experiment is being conducted onboard the International Space Station. We now k...

During a trip across America, Swiss photographer Gus Petro started his new project, "Merge," which captures two contrasting locations in a single, surreal image. Petro was awestruck by the "emptiness and density" of the country after visiting New Yor...

Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich have successfully used sound waves to levitate small objects. They've put the technology to good use, creating instant coffee by levitating and colliding a small droplet of wa...

Tired of keying in commands for his microwave to follow, Nathan Broadbent decided to program his so it could accept voice commands -- as well as scan product barcodes to determine how long they should cook. Broadbent is a Ruby On Rails developer in h...

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